Afghanstan condemned on Tuesday the killing of five of its citizens by Iranian frontier guards as they were trying to cross the shared border.
The Foreign Ministry expressed its "deepest concern" about the killing and officially asked the Iranian embassy in Kabul to explain the incident, a statement said.
The men were allegedly shot to death by Iranian guards while crossing the border from the south-western Afghan province of Nimruz, the provincial governor told German Press Agency dpa.
"They were all poor people who were going to Iran to find job there," Gholam Dastigir Azad said.
Two other men were wounded in the shooting, he said.
Hundreds of thousands of Afghans live illegally in Iran, besides nearly 1 million refugees recognized by the authorities there as legal migrants. The war and unemployment force young Afghans to cross the border in search of better opportunities.
Afghanistan condemns killing of five citizens by Iranian guards
